Prizes and awards
Two working papers written by KOF researchers received awards last year. Pascal Seiler won the Isaac Kerstenetzky Young Economist Award at the 36th CIRET Conference in Istanbul for his paper entitled ‘Surprises in Prices: Firms’ Price Expectations and Changes in Their Price Plans’.
Johannes Dahlke, Mathias Beck, Martin Wörter and their co-authors won the Best Paper Award for their research paper entitled ‘When is AI adoption contagious? Epidemic effects and relational embeddedness in the inter-firm diffusion of artificial intelligence’ at the prestigious R&D Management Conference in 2022.
A further paper entitled ‘Productivity effects of IT investments and the role of innovation and competition’ by Mathias Beck, Martin Wörter and their ETH co-authors was nominated as best paper at this conference. Last year also saw Mathias Beck win a further award as best reviewer of the Industry and Innovation journal.
In addition, Philipp Baumann won first prize at the CITADEL Global PhD Datathon in the United States. These competitions involve analysing large and complex datasets and then presenting them to a jury. The winners receive a five-figure sum as prize money.
Isabel Martínez was officially recognised by the Europe Forum in Lucerne last year for her highly influential research into inequality and its impact on the economy and the media.
In addition to these awards there were also three appointments last year. Michael König became a Research Fellow at the Centre for Economic Policy Research (CEPR), Isabel Martínez was confirmed as a Research Affiliate at CESifo and Martin Wörter was appointed as a Research Associate at ZEW Mannheim.